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051 AXUS75 KABQ 260238 DGTABQ NMC001>011-019-021-027-028-031-033-037>049-053>061-282359- DROUGHT INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 330 PM MST MON FEB 25 2013 SYNOPSIS... ...EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS IN NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... ...MAINLY MODERATE TO SEVERE DROUGHT ELSEWHERE... NEW MEXICO PRECIPITATION FOR JANUARY 2013 WAS 69 PERCENT OF AVERAGE. JANUARY 2013 PRECIPITATION RANGED FROM 94 PERCENT IN THE NORTHWEST PLATEAU AND NORTHEAST PLAINS CLIMATE DIVISIONS TO 35 PERCENT OF NORMAL IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS AND CENTRAL VALLEY (RIO GRANDE VALLEY). THE STORM ON THE 26TH WAS THE MOST PRODUCTIVE AS AN UNUSUALLY WARM AND WET ATMOSPHERE PRODUCED RAIN ALL THE WAY UP TO 10,000 FEET IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. A FEW SKI AREAS REPORTED RAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN JANUARY! THE LATEST U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR MAP FOR NEW MEXICO CAN BE FOUND AT... HTTP://DROUGHT.UNL.EDU/DM/DM_STATE.HTM?NM,W SUMMARY OF IMPACTS... A COUPLE OF PUBLIC RECREATION AREAS RETAIN SOME FORM OF FIRE RESTRICTIONS...MAINLY IN AREAS WHERE WILD FIRES BURNED IN THE PAST TWO YEARS. PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR A LISTING OF FIRE RESTRICTIONS... http://www.publiclands.org/firenews/NM.php CLIMATE SUMMARY... JANUARY 2013 STATEWIDE PRECIPITATION WAS JUST BARELY BELOW NORMAL AT MINUS 0.01 INCHES. MEANWHILE...TEMPERATURES WERE BELOW NORMAL AT MINUS 2.1 DEGREES. THE LAST MONTH WITH STATEWIDE TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL WAS DECEMBER 2011. PRECIPITATION/TEMPERATURE OUTLOOKS... THE NOAA CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER OUTLOOK FOR NEW MEXICO FROM MARCH THROUGH MAY 2013 IS WEIGHTED TOWARD DRIER THAN NORMAL AND WARMER THAN NORMAL CONDITIONS. IF THIS OUTLOOK VERIFIES...THEN LATE WINTER AND SPRING 2013 COULD BE SIMILAR TO BOTH 2012 AND 2011 WHEN LA NINA WAS IN PLACE AND OUR WEATHER WAS GENERALLY DRY AND MILD...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ARCTIC OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF FEBRUARY 2011. PLEASE SEE THE ENSO DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION ISSUED BY THE NWS CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER AT... http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring /enso_advisory/ensodisc.pdf FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO PLEASE SEE THE NWS WFO ALBUQUERQUE WEB SITE AT... HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/ABQ HYDROLOGIC SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK... RESERVOIR STORAGE IS ABOVE 50 PERCENT OF CAPACITY AT NAVAJO LAKE AND LAKE HERON BUT FAR BELOW NORMAL STORAGE PERSISTS AT SANTA ROSA LAKE...CONCHAS LAKE...ELEPHANT BUTTE LAKE...COSTILLA LAKE...SUMNER LAKE AND EL VADO LAKE. NEXT ISSUANCE DATE... THIS PRODUCT WILL BE UPDATED IN MID TO LATE MARCH 2013 OR SOONER IF NECESSARY IN RESPONSE TO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN WEATHER...WATER SUPPLY...OR DROUGHT CONDITIONS. RELATED WEB SITES... ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON CURRENT OR PAST DROUGHT CONDITIONS MAY BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESSES /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/ U.S DROUGHT MONITOR...HTTP://DROUGHT.UNL.EDU/DM/MONITOR.HTML NWS PRECIPITATION ANALYSIS PAGE...HTTP://WATER.WEATHER.GOV PUBLIC LANDS INFORMATION CENTER... HTTP://PUBLICLANDS.ORG/FIRENEWS/PRESSRELEASES/NM.PHP CLIMATOLOGY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY LINKS... HTTP://WWW.DROUGHT.UNL.EDU/WHATIS/CLIMLINKS.HTM WESTERN REGIONAL CLIMATE CENTER... HTTP://WWW.WRCC.DRI.EDU/INDEX.HTML CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER...HTTP://WWW.CPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/ ADDITIONAL RIVER INFORMATION... NWS...HTTP://AHPS.SRH.NOAA.GOV/INDEX.PHP?WFO=ABQ USGS...HTTP://WATERDATA.USGS.GOV/NM/NWIS/CURRENT?TYPE=FLOW ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR IS A MULTI-AGENCY EFFORT INVOLVING THE NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER...THE USDA...STATE AND REGIONAL CLIMATE CENTERS AND THE NATIONAL DROUGHT MITIGATION CENTER. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS... IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS DROUGHT INFORMATION STATEMENT...PLEASE CONTACT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 2341 CLARK CARR LOOP SE ALBUQUERQUE NM 87106 PHONE...505-244-9147 SR-ABQ.WEBMASTER@NOAA.GOV $$